On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 08:12 AM, Ray Audette wrote:
> Although, we have no way of
> determining the body composition of extinct animals, it is likely that
> high northern and southern latitude mammals probably had to store fat
> similar to modern mammals living in seasonal climates to survive
> through
> the winter.
We do have a few, frozen wooly mammoths found in Alaska and Siberia. I
tried googling for this though, and there seems to be very little info
on the web about these mammoths. Anyone have any info? For our purposes
some estimate of the original fat reserves would be nice.